'Nutcracker' and New Year's concert in the same afternoon

The Orquestra Simfònica del Vallès is fully employed this Saturday, at the Palau de la Música Catalana.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
07 January 2023 Saturday 01:46
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'Nutcracker' and New Year's concert in the same afternoon

The Orquestra Simfònica del Vallès is fully employed this Saturday, at the Palau de la Música Catalana. At 6 pm, a symphonic selection of Tchaikovsky's Trencanous (Nutcracker) begins, with Rubén Gimeno conducting. The one who was the main director of the Sabadell formation leads a production that has the dubbing actor Lluís Posada as narrator, the voice of great Hollywood stars such as Leonardo DiCaprio or Jonny Depp. At the same time, the company Borja Ytuquepintas uses sand in situ to illustrate the tale of E.T.A. Hoffmann in which the ballet is inspired, that is, the story of the brave toy soldier.

At 9 p.m. the Symphony will begin a new -the last one- session of the New Year's Concert, this time with maestro Oliver Díaz at the baton. The traditional vouchers and polkas of the Strauss family will be heard impregnated with the optimism of good omens. A music born in Vienna that is already the heritage of the entire world.

The Majorcan soprano Marga Cloquell, who has already made her debut on this stage as Violetta Valery in La Traviata and also sung the role of Francina in the zarzuela Cançó d'amor i de guerra, will put her instrument at the service of this evening co-organized by Palau itself of the music. The singer from the Balearic Islands completed her training in Vienna and at the Conservatori Superior del Liceu, with Dolors Aldea and Marta Pujol as teachers, having taken classes with Enrico Facini, Amelia Felle, Ana Luisa Chova, Fiorenza Cosotto and Jaume Aragall.

He won the XVIII Mirna Lacambra Singing Competition organized by the Sabadell Opera Friends Association and the "Germans Pla-Ciutat de Balaguer" International Singing Competition, together with the Public Prize and a scholarship for the Sabadell Opera School . Soloist on several occasions in the "Open Days" of the Gran Teatre del Liceu in the framework of the European Opera Day, her debut as Lucía in Lucia di Lammermoor at the Sabadell Opera brought her excellent reviews. He has acted at the Théâtre du Capitole Toulouse in the production of Rigoletto directed by Daniel Oren. And in Italy she was Susanna in Il segreto di Susanna.